>This was on a medical publishing website. But that's not the worst. When my daughter had to pass a TOEFL (aka Teufel :) exam, the email message where they explained the rules, in the part where they wanted to say what happens if you're late, said that whether you'll be allowed to attend the examination is "at the sole desecration of the manager".
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>For the uninitiated, TOEFL is "Test of English as a Foreign Language".
... and, also for the uninitiated - you know that, of course - "Teufel" means devil in German. "eu" pronounced more or less as the "oy" in "boy".
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
